MimeType Visual Basic

[derben]

Hi,

I have tried to create a link to a *.vbs file in my Joomla 2.5 with Phoca-Downloads.

Now I am struggeling with the mimetypes I have to enter in the backend, to allow the download.
I have tried {vbs=application/vbscript} and {vbs=text/vbscript} but then the browser shows the sourcecode of the vb-script in a browser tab.
But I would like to have a download, with an option to excecute the file.

Any ideas ?

Thanks a lot.
Ben.

[Jan]

Hi, the browser should not display the code even you set some mime type

- do you get it in different browsers?
- when you add e.g. txt file, do you get this problem too with text files?

Jan

[derben]

I have tried it with IE11 and Firefox 29. Same issue.
And yes, same with *.txt .

Joomla 2.5 with Phoca 2.1.9

[Jan]

Can I see the site where this occurs?

[derben]

it is an intranet-site.

[Jan]

So then the only idea I have is to customize it and disable the checking for the mime type like it works in Joomla! 3

Jan

[derben]

ok, can you give me a hint where i have to change it ?

Thanks !

[Jan]

Hi, in Phoca Download 3 there is such function, so this should be similar, the problem is, Phoca Download 3 has other file structure, so this is hard to find.

In Phoca Download 2, it is stored here:

components\com_phocadownload\helpers\phocadownload.php

check the variable: $errorAllowed ... you can set it to false so in fact the file mime type check will be disabled, but all the functionality needs to be tested there (I didn't test it so cannot say, if there is no conflict with other feature but it should not be )

Jan

[derben]

Hi Jan,

in the file it is set to false already:
...
// NO MIME FOUND
$errorAllowed = false;// !!! IF YES - Disallow Downloading
$errorDisallowed = false;// !!! IF YES - Allow Downloading

$errorAllowed = preg_match("/PhocaError/i", $allowedMimeType);
$errorDisallowed = preg_match("/PhocaError/i", $disallowedMimeType);

if ($errorAllowed) {
$msg = JText::_('COM_PHOCADOWNLOAD_WARNFILETYPE_DOWNLOAD');
$app->redirect(JRoute::_($currentLink), $msg);
} else if (!$errorDisallowed) {
$msg = JText::_('COM_PHOCADOWNLOAD_WARNFILETYPE_DISALLOWED_DOWNLOAD');
$app->redirect(JRoute::_($currentLink), $msg);
} else {
...

[Jan]

Hi, this is the default value - you always needs to declare the variable - first value of the variable which will change in the time depending of parameters

I am not on my PC to test it, so cannot give clue advice but try to comment the next lines where the variable gets the true or false

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$errorAllowed = false;// !!! IF YES - Disallow Downloading
$errorDisallowed = false;// !!! IF YES - Allow Downloading

//$errorAllowed = preg_match("/PhocaError/i", $allowedMimeType);
//$errorDisallowed = preg_match("/PhocaError/i", $disallowedMimeType);

$errorAllowed = false;
$errorDisallowed = true;